Kazakhstan aims to train one million people in AI skills by 2030
Kazakhstan plans to train one million citizens in AI over the next five years. To achieve this goal, the country is opening Central Asia’s first International AI Centre, ALEM AI, launching new educational programmes, and expanding online public services.
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00:00Kazakhstan is following global AI trends, expanding IT experts and growing its own AI talent pool.
00:09In this episode, we take a closer look at the plans, the projects and the people driving the nation's AI transformation.
00:19About 100 AI startups open in Kazakhstan each year,
00:22and the government provided a number of most advanced supercomputers and other infrastructure to support this drive.
00:28But with a significant brain drain, it is training specialist that was set as the main goal of the nation's AI ambitions.
00:35In the past, we have the most advanced supercomputer class.
00:41Our mission is to build innovative innovative eco-juice.
00:48In the past, we will be able to take a closer look at them.
00:53IT and AI training became a part of curriculum throughout the education process and a number of tech centers.
01:00The most sophisticated one is Alem AI.
01:02Why is the establishment of the International AI Center?
01:06Alem AI is an important step for Kazakhstan and Central Asia overall.
01:10In the AI industry, the most important resource is talent.
01:15So Alem AI is the center of competence which is designed to train people, to train specialists, to support startups and bring them to the global markets.
01:27We show our ambitions by building and launching such projects as Alem AI.
01:32The government has launched the AI SANA program providing free courses for school children, university students and the wider public.
01:39The AI SANA training is delivered through Astana Hub, Kazakhstan's main tech innovation hub.
01:44The initial mission of Astana Hub is to provide support for tech talents at every stage of their development.
01:53So we have many programs dedicated to different types of people.
01:57So if you are just a beginner, you might become a startup entrepreneur by joining our program which is called Startup Garage.
02:06If you want to start a startup especially in the AI field, you might join AIpreneurs.
02:11But if you are aiming to become an engineer, you might join tomorrow's school, let's say, or we have many other schools within the program which is called TechOrda.
02:23The outcome for us is to increase IT export.
02:27This year we are going to reach $1 billion of IT exports, which is incredible.
02:32But the next goal is to reach $5 billion.
02:35And, of course, the main resource of reaching this goal is human capital.
02:39Currently, artificial intelligence is taught at 79 institutions, educating more than 60,000 students.
02:45At Mahsoud Narikbaev University, AI has become a mandatory subject for all final year students.
02:51The university has opened artificial intelligence labs and is set to launch a new AI-focused academic program next year.
02:58We started this process several years ago and from the very beginning we started to implement mandatory courses for all final year students.
03:07We developed a hybrid program AI plus X, which means that two first years it will be deep data science, fundamentals and machine learning.
03:17But after two years of this study it will be not only a technical program because students will be free to choose any direction in our university.
03:26Artificial intelligence is not about replacing universities, it's about reshaping.
03:32The government is set to train one million citizens in AI over the next five years.
03:37A new generation of AI specialists will push forward the country's digital transformation, bring AI to every sector of the economy and boost IT expert.
03:46Curious about Kazakhstan's journey from e-government to AI-powered government, we visited the Digital Government Support Center to get a closer look.
03:54Our main goal, first of all, is we have some mandates from our president to design a strategic framework, how we can deploy artificial intelligence from different spheres for the economy.
04:07And today we have the opportunity to make and design a strategic framework.
04:13We have some priorities. First of all, it's human capital.
04:16In the previous month we launched a digital IT academia. Second, it's economy sphere. Third, develop public services.
04:25And the next, it depends with our infrastructure because maybe you know we have some super computer and we need to implement super computer to the whole sphere.
04:34Digital sphere, I think today is the most fast changes sphere in the world.
04:39Artificial intelligence offers vast opportunities but significant risks.
04:43Facing these challenges head-on, Kazakhstan is building a legal framework to regulate AI.
04:48The country was among the first to pass AI law and this year it launched a dedicated ministry of artificial intelligence to steer the technology's future.
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